La Notte (1961) [Masters of Cinema]

Posted By: edi1967

La Notte (1961) [Masters of Cinema]
The Night
A Film by Michelangelo Antonioni
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 1.66:1 | 16:9 | 720x576 | 01:57:07 | 7.05 Gb
Languages Available: Italian 2.0 AC3 | Subtitle: English
Extra: Scene Selection, Menù, Theatrical Trailer
Genre: Drama | 6 wins & 1 nomination

La giornata di una coppia in crisi, dalla mattina all'alba del giorno dopo. Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni), scrittore di successo, e la moglie Lidia (Jeanne Moreau), visitano in clinica Tommaso (Bernhard Wicki) un caro amico gravemente malato, quindi partecipano al ricevimento di presentazione del nuovo libro. Lidia se ne va presto e vagabonda senza meta per la città.

IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
MoC Info


Alla sera, per rompere la monotonia, si recano in un night club, ma Lidia pare non sopportare l'uscita a due, perciò si spostano fuori città, accettando l'invito ad una festa nella grande villa dell'industriale Gherardini; quest'ultimo ha intenzione di assumere Giovanni proponendogli di scrivere un libro sulla sua impresa.
Nonostante il party sia affollato, Lidia rimane chiusa nel suo disagio esistenziale ed oltretutto al telefono apprende che Tommaso è morto. Finisce per accettare le avances di uno sconosciuto rifiutando però di avere un rapporto sessuale.


Giovanni invece rimane affascinato da Valentina (Monica Vitti), la 22enne figlia del padrone di casa, che in mezzo ai festeggiamenti se ne sta in disparte a leggere.
In seguito ad un temporale che ha interrotto il ricevimento, i tre si ritrovano insieme in casa; Lidia, che ha visto il marito baciare Valentina, spiega di non provare alcuna gelosia dato che considera il suo matrimonio finito da tempo.


All'alba, Giovanni e Lidia lasciano Valentina visibilmente turbata, e fermandosi nel parco della villa si aprono ad un confronto finalmente sincero: lei, dopo avergli letto una vecchia e struggente lettera che lui non ricorda nemmeno di aver scritto, ribadisce di non amarlo più, mentre Giovanni cerca di riaccendere la vecchia passione.
Faranno disperatamente l'amore mentre la cinepresa girerà loro le spalle.


La notte è un film del 1961, settimo lungometraggio diretto da Michelangelo Antonioni, Orso d'oro al Festival di Berlino, Nastro d'Argento e David di Donatello per la regia del miglior film. È il capitolo centrale della cosiddetta "trilogia esistenziale" o "dell'incomunicabilità", segue L'avventura e precede L'eclisse.
Fortemente innovativo nei contenuti e nel linguaggio filmico, è considerato, insieme a "L'avventura", il punto più alto e rigoroso della parabola creativa dell’autore ed uno dei capolavori della cinematografia mondiale.


.: English :.
La notte follows a day in the life of a middle-aged, married couple based in Milan. Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni) is a distinguished, successful writer and Lidia (Jeanne Moreau) is his wife. They visit their dying friend Tommaso (Bernhard Wicki) in the hospital, where a sick and uninhibited young woman attempts to seduce Giovanni, before attending a party to celebrate Giovanni’s most recent book, which has been well received. Lidia sneaks off, still shaken by Tommaso’s dire condition, and wanders the streets of Milan. She ends up in the neighbourhood where she and Giovanni lived as newlyweds and seems content for a moment.


Giovanni picks Lidia up from the old neighbourhood, they return to their chic apartment and decide to go to a nightclub to break up the monotony. There they watch a mesmerising performance and make small talk. To Giovanni’s surprise, Lidia suggests that they leave the club and attend a swanky party thrown by a millionaire businessman who wants Giovanni to write a book about the history of his company.


At the party, Giovanni socialises with the guests and appears to be in his element, while Lidia walks around in a state of boredom. Eventually, Giovanni romances Valentina (Monica Vitti) the lively, charming daughter of the host. Briefly, Lidia leaves with a young man who has been observing her all night, after calling the hospital and learning that Tommaso has died. Both couples are aware of what the other is up to and while Giovanni seems slightly displeased with Lidia’s behaviour, Lidia almost seems to encourage Giovanni’s flirtation with Valentina. When morning comes, Lidia admits to Giovanni that she wants to die because she is no longer in love with him but Giovanni reassures her that they are in love and can make their marriage work.
La notte (The Night) is a 1961 Italian film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It is considered the central film of a trilogy beginning with L'avventura and ending with L'Eclisse. The film won the Golden Bear award at the 11th Berlin International Film Festival, and critically acclaimed film director Stanley Kubrick listed it as one of his top 10 favourite films.


One of the masterworks of 1960s cinema, La notte [The Night] marked yet another development in the continuous stylistic evolution of its director, Michelangelo Antonioni — even as it solidified his reputation as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. La notte is Antonioni’s “Twilight of the Gods”, but composed in cinematic terms. Examined from a crane-shot, it’s a sprawling study of Italy’s upper middle-class; seen in close-up, it’s an x-ray of modern man’s psychic desolation.
Two of the giants of film-acting come together as a married couple living in crisis: Marcello Mastroianni (La dolce vita, 8 1/2) and Jeanne Moreau (Jules et Jim, Bay of Angels). He is a renowned author and “public intellectual”; she is “the wife”. Over the course of one day and the night into which it inevitably bleeds, the pair will come to re-examine their emotional bonds, and grapple with the question of whether love and communication are even possible in a world built out of profligate idylls and sexual hysteria.


Extra Features:

• New restoration of the film in its original 1.66:1 aspect ratio with previously censored sequences restored for the first time. Anamorphically encoded.
• New and improved English subtitles.
• Original Italian theatrical trailer.

From Wikipedia


General
Complete name : VTS_02_0.IFO
Format : DVD Video
Format profile : Program
File size : 82.0 KiB
Duration : 1h 57mn
Overall bit rate : 95 bps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Duration : 1h 57mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Compression mode : Lossy

Audio
ID : 128 (0x80)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Duration : 1h 57mn
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Language : Italian

Text
ID : 32 (0x20)
Format : RLE
Format/Info : Run-length encoding
Bit depth : 2 bits
Language : English




ORIGINAL TITLE: La Notte
GENRE: Drama, Psychological
DIRECTOR: Michelangelo Antonioni
Screenplay: Michelangelo Antonioni, Ennio Flaiano, Tonino Guerra
ACTORS:
Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Rosy Mazzacurati, Guido Ajmone Marsan, Vincent Corbella, Gitt Magrini, Maria Pia Luzi, Ugo Fortunati, Ettore Ulivelli, Odile Jean, Giansiro Ferrata, Roberta Speroni Fortunati, Roberto Sanesi, Valentino Bompiani , Alcaeus Guatelli, Ottiero Ottieri, Giorgio Negro, Salvatore Quasimodo
Cast

PHOTOGRAPHY: Gianni Di Venanzo, Pasqualino De Santis, Erico Menczer
ASSEMBLY: Eraldo Da Roma
MUSIC: Giorgio Gaslini
PRODUCTION: EMANUELE Cassuto NEPI FOR FILM, (ROME); SOFITEDIP, SILVER FILM (PARIS)
DISTRIBUTION: Dino De Laurentiis - BLUE HOME VIDEO
COUNTRY: Italy 1960
DURATION: 122 Min
FORMAT: B / W OVERVIEW
VISA SUBMISSION: 16

NOTES:
- WRITE EXTERNAL TURN IN MILAN. - GOLDEN BEAR AND THE FIPRESCI AWARD INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL BERLIN 1961. DAVID DI DONATELLO 1961 AND 1962 SILVER RIBBON FOR BEST DIRECTOR.


Recovery Volumes (.rev)

Recovery volumes or .rev files are special files which can be created by WinRAR/RAR and allow you to reconstruct missing and damaged files in a volume set. They can
only be used with multi-volume archives.

This feature may be useful for backups or, for example, when you post a multivolume archive to a newsgroup and some of the subscribers did not receive some files. Reposting recovery volumes instead of usual volumes may reduce the total number of files to repost.

Each recovery volume is able to reconstruct one missing RAR volume. For example, if you have 30 volumes and 3 recovery volumes, you are able to reconstruct any 3 missing volumes. If the number of .rev files is less than a number of missing volumes, reconstructing is impossible. The total number of usual and recovery volumes must not exceed 255 and the number of recovery volumes must be less than the number of RAR volumes.

WinRAR reconstructs missing and damaged volumes either when clicking on .rev file, or when using rc command or automatically, if it cannot locate the next volume and finds the required number of .rev files when unpacking.

You may use the "Recovery volumes" option in the Archive name and parameters dialog or a similar option also appears in the Protect archive command to create recovery volumes. In the command line mode you may do it with -rv switch or rv command.

Original copies of damaged volumes are renamed to *.bad before reconstruction. For example, volname.part03.rar will be renamed to volname.part03.rar.bad.

From Win-rar.com


Click HERE for others Movies in DVD format


Please DO NOT MIRROR

If you'll find that my links are dead please let me know through the Private Messages.

>>> Visit My Blog Here <<<

Subscribe to My Newsletter!